Search results
Robbins suffered a stroke in July 1998, two months after the premiere of his re-staging of Les Noces. He died at his home in New York on July 29, 1998. On the evening of his death, the lights of Broadway were dimmed for a moment in tribute. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered on the Atlantic Ocean.
Apr 2, 2014 · Jerome Robbins died on July 29, 1998 at the age of 79 after suffering a stroke, leaving behind a monumental legacy that continues to be performed and honored.
Jul 30, 1998 · Jerome Robbins, who simultaneously became one of 20th-century ballet's greatest choreographers and a towering innovator in Broadway musicals, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 79.
By then he was in fragile health, following a bicycle accident in 1990 and heart-valve surgery in 1994; in 1996 he began showing signs of a form of Parkinson’s disease and his hearing was poor; yet he insisted on staging Les Noces for City Ballet (1998).
Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer and dance choreographer best known for his work in Broadway Theater and ballet/dance. A multi-faceted individual, his work ranged from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater, and he also occasionally directed films and television programs.
Apr 17, 2019 · Wendy Lesser, founder and editor of The Threepenny Review, has written a brief and engaging biography of Robbins that draws factual information about his life from biographies by Deborah Jowitt (Jerome Robbins, 2004) and Amanda Vaill (Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, 2006).
People also ask
How did Jerome Robbins die?
What is Jerome Robbins known for?
Who were Jerome Robbins' parents?
When did Jerome Robbins start dancing?
What happened to Jerome Robbins' sister?
Did Jerome Robbins win a Tony?
Vaill (“Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story”) was given unprecedented access to Robbins’s personal papers after his death, and the result is a critically sophisticated biography that’s as compulsively readable as a novel.
